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Westboro Baptist Church expatriate Megan Phelps-Roper shares the lessons learned from her social media-driven separation from her family’s “God Hates Fags” religion (speaking at a recent TED Talk)!

And in NewsWrap: Serbia’s President picks a lesbian P.M., British election results "May" leave queer equality in limbo, trans rights advance across Canada and in Oregon, Texas okays religion-based rejection of gay and lesbian adoptive parents, queer choirs serenade Seoul, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Michele Yeater (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Queer India Now & Collins Gets Better

Week of September 22, 2014
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As the news breaks that India’s government will challenge the recent Supreme Court ruling that legally recognized trans-people as a third gender, we hear "Sapphic Nomads" Katie Cook and Maggie Young's second audio postcard from Mumbai.

It Got Better for pro-basketball player Jason Collins after he came out, as he tells Chrisanne Eastwood at the OutFest screening of the docu-series on the LGBT youth support project.

Plus: right-winger Tony Perkins' homophobic radio rant against the Smithsonian Institution.

And in NewsWrap: Justice Ginsberg makes U.S. marriage equality predictions, Egypt grinds gay men into entrapment, Russia's "no promo homo" pol poisons  opening of St. Petersburg's QueerFest, Texas hotels "86" Museveni, Ugandan gay activist wins U.S. asylum, and more news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 20, 2014

SUMMARY

Something Wrong With Justice - India's government challenges the nation's recent Supreme Court ruling legally recognizing trans-people as a third gender …

Supreme Speculation - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg points to a pending ruling by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals that could determine when the high court might consider nationwide marriage equality …

Grounds for Arrest - Egypt uses Grindr and other social media platforms to escalate its crackdown on gay men …

Bashers in Custody - three men are arrested in Belgrade for the harrowing caught-on-camera assault of a gay German man attending an LGBT conference in the Serbian capital …

Violence Off-Screen - Vitaly Milonov, the Russian M.P. behind the country's infamous "no promo homo" law, leads a gang of thugs to disperse an unidentified gas that sends 16 people to the hospital in an attempt to disrupt the opening event of St. Petersburg's "QueerFest" …

Trojan Horse - the Finnish news agency YLE tests Russia's "no promo homo" law by sending a package plastered with the homoerotic images of Tom of Finland – now the country's all-time postal sales leader – which is delivered in Moscow with no questions asked …

Rainbow Parachute - the Australian Football League cancels its sponsorship deal with Royal Brunei Airlines because of the tiny Southeast Asian country's pending laws that call for gay people to be stoned to death …

No Vacancy - faced with expected demonstrations protesting the east African nation's draconian Anti- Homosexuality Law wherever he stays, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni struggles to find accommodations in Irving, Texas for a conference promoting tourism and investment in his country …

Safe House - longtime Ugandan LGBT activist John "Longjones" Wambere tentatively wins political asylum in the U.S. ….

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"Face Off HIV" & "The Happy Sad"

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Keith Pederson started to do a coffee table book featuring the rich and diverse stories of Minnesotans living with HIV and AIDS … then came the web project … and soon there will be a movie, too! He talks with Dixie Treichel about getting people to put the ribbon back on.

Film festival fans favor bi-curious couples in director Rodney Evans new movie starring Leroy McClain, who share a preview with Steve Pride.

Plus syndicated lesbian columnist Abby Dees answers a question that never seems to get old, Who's The Man?

And in NewsWrap: Russian lesbian's regional "no promo homo" conviction overturned, Belgrade Pride seems to be Serbia's E.U. membership ticket, second ruling by the same judge upholds Singapore's gay sex ban, homophobes hate being moved by Modern Family, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 5, 2013

SUMMARY

Full Parental Assault - A Russian court overturns a regional "no promo homo" law, but a bill is introduced in parliament to remove children from homes headed by lesbian or gay parents, adoptions of Russian children by married Swedes are prohibited, and the visiting president of America's notoriously anti-equality National Organization for Marriage tells Russian lawmakers and television viewers that gays and lesbians are unfit to raise children …

EU Ticket Pride - Serbia's president promises the Council of Europe, which his nation is eager to join, that this year's ban on an LGBT Pride march won't be repeated next year, while skeptical equality activists demonstrate with pride anyway in a virtually impromptu late-evening rally outside the Prime Minister's office in Belgrade …

Another Loh Blow - the same Singapore High Court judge who upheld the city-state's law criminalizing consensual adult gay sex in April again passes the buck to legislators in a second legal challenge to the colonial era sodomy statute …

Virtue, Liberty and Independence Duke It Out - Pennsylvania's Montgomery County appeals a state court order that stopped it from continuing to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples, Republican Governor Tom Corbett defends the state law banning matrimonial equality by comparing the marriages of gay or lesbian couples to incest, but out Representative Brian Sims co-authors a marriage equality bill in the state legislature …

Marriage Champions Ride Again - the victorious attorneys in California's Prop 8 case set their sites on Virginia …

Don't Touch Me - Evan Mantel of the rabidly homophobic Media Research Center grouses about being moved by the charming TV engagement of gay couple Mitchell and Cam in the season opener of Modern Family ….

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Steel Mongolians pt. 1 & "Tea Leaves"

"Sapphic Nomads" Katie Cook and Maggie Young send an "audio postcard" from the morning of the movement in Mongolia, the latest stop in their around-the-world search for material for their documentary (part one of two).

Memoirist Janet Mason telephonically travels to Australia to talk about her book with Gordon Wilson on Joy 94.9 in Melbourne.

And in NewsWrap: Italy's top court supports same-gender parenting, gay Serbian wins discrimination lawsuit, homosexuality convictions quashed in Cameroon, Sweden stops sterilizing trans surgery patients, equality bells ring at Washington's National Cathedral, and more news reported by Robert LeBlanc and Pamela Brooks (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 12, 2013

SUMMARY

Parental Permission - Italy's Supreme Court declares that same-gender couples can raise children just as well as heterosexual couples …

First Bias Hit - an appeals court in Serbia becomes the first in the Balkan nation to punish someone for anti-gay discrimination …

Liquor License - the Court of Appeals in Cameroon frees two men after they'd served more than a year of five-year "homosexuality" prison sentences for, among other "offenses," drinking Bailey's Irish Cream …

Reproductive Rights - the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeals overturns a 1972 law in Sweden that required involuntary sterilization in all gender reassignment surgeries …

Oyez Oyez - the U.S. Supreme Court announces that it will hear oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case on March 26th and on the DOMA case the following day …

If You Don't, You Can - the Church of England says that "out" gay men in celibate civil partnerships can now become bishops …

Faithful Servant, Well Done - the first openly-gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, New Hampshire's Gene Robinson, retires after almost a decade in that post …

Capital Equality Bells - the national seat of the Episcopal Church, the iconic National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., will soon begin hosting the weddings of lesbian & gay couples ….

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